Capparis.] xi. capparidEjE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 175 



straight, leaves (only on young shoots) glabrous linear pungent, buds pu- 

 bescent, stamens 18-20. Wall. Cat. 6983 ; W.tkA. Frodr, 27 ; Dak. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 9 ; Olvv. Fl. Trop. Afric. I 95. (C. Sodada, Br. Sodada deci- 

 dua, Forsk.) 



Driest places in the Punjab, Gdzekat, Eajfutana, the Dekkan and S. Caeuatio. — 

 DiSTEiB. Arabia, Egypt, N. trop. Africa.- 



A dense much branched shrub ; branches slender, glabrous. Mlowers 1 in. diam., 

 red-brown, in mauy-flowered corymbs on short lateral shoots. Outer sepals subvalvate, 

 ciliate ; inner very saccate. Fruit J-f in., glabrous, long-beaked. 



7. C. diversifoUa, W. dk A. Prodr. 27 ; glabrous, thorns recurved base 

 broad, leaves glabrous linear or oblong-lanceolate, flowers If in. purple, 

 ovary glabrous. Rook. Ic. PI. t. 181. C. reticulata, Klein, ex Wall. Gat. 6986. 

 C. divarieata, Wall. Gat. 6988, A {not B). C. cssrulea, Heyne ex Watt. Gat. I.e. 



Westebn Peninsola, in Travancore. 



A shrub, branches zigzag, young pnberulous. Leaves 1^-2 by J-| in., uppermost 

 usually (rarely all) twice aa long and ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, shining above ; petiole 

 Jin. Flowers 14 in., in few-flowered terminal subsessile corymbs; pedicels subclavate, 

 puberulous. Sepals ovate, acute. Petals broad-obovate. Ovary narrow-oblong. Fruit 

 IJ in., ovoid, smooth, many-seeded. 



8. C. trinervia, H. f. & T. ; branches brown-toraentose, thorns recur- 

 ved, leaves glabrous broad-lanceolate 3-plinerved, sepals orbicular tomen- 

 tose, ovary glabrous. 



Tehasseeim, Heifer; Tavot, Parish. 



Climbing?, branches long. Leaves 2-3 by |-1 in. ; 'nervules transverse, few ; petiole 

 and midrib brown tomentose. Flowers 1^-2 in. diam., in terminal many-flowered 

 corymbs ; pedicels 1-1^ in., lower with foliaceous bracts, upper with minute ones. Ovary 

 ovoid, acute ; gynophore \\ in. Fruit unknown. 



9. C. versicolor, Griffith NotuL. iv. 577 ; branches glabrous, thorns short, 

 recurved, leaves glabrous lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate obtusely acuminate 

 obscurely penninerved, sepals ovate glabrous, ovary glabrous. 



Tbnasseeim, Griffith. — Disteib. Java. 



Climbing ; branches flagelliform. Leaves 2-3 by |-1 in., tip retuse, glabrous and 

 shining above, pale beneath; petiole | in., puberulous. Flowers 2 in. diam., white 

 then rose ; buds globose, glabrous ; corymbs simple, terminal, with the lower flowers 

 axillary, or few-flowered and disposed in lateral racemes l-lj in. long; pedicel 1 in. 

 Ovter sepals very convex, inner petioled. Ovary ovoid, gynophore \\ in. — Perhaps C 

 ealaccenMs, Blume, of which we have seen no authentic specimen. 



10. C. nXoonii, Wight III. 35 ; branches glabrous, thorns recurved, 

 leaves oblong obtuse or subacute with a callous tip glabrous, flowers 4^5 in. 

 diam., sepals orbicular, ovary glabrous. Thwaites Enum. 16. 



CoNCAN, stocks, &c. ; Ceylou, ascending to 3000 ft. 



A large woody climber, branches flagellate. Leaves 3-6 by li-2J in., coriaceous, 

 shining above, pale beneath. Flowers white, in 6-12-flowered almost leafless termmal 

 corymbs, with sometimes a solitary axillary flower; pedicels 1-2 in., stout. Outer 

 sepals orbicular, convex, much imbricated. Petals subpilose. Oynophore 3-4 in. 

 Fruit l-A in. diam., obovoid or subglobose. Seeds many, size of a large bean.— Pro- 

 bably a large flowered state of C. Boxburghii. Thwaites' character of the long fumcle 

 is altogether inconstant. 



11. C. Roxbur^hll, DG. Prod/r. i. 247 ; young branches hoary-pu- 

 bescent, thorns recurved, leaves glabrous obovate-oblong obtuse acute or 

 acuminate, flowers 2 in. diam., sepals orbicular, ovary glabrous. W. & A. 



